The collapse of American criminal justice /
The rule of law has vanished in America's criminal justice system. Prosecutors now decide whom to punish and how severely. Almost no one accused of a crime will ever face a jury. Inconsistent policing, rampant plea bargaining, overcrowded courtrooms, and ever more draconian sentencing have prod...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the rule of too much law
- Crime and punishment
- Two migrations
- "The wolf by the ear"
- The past
- Ideals and institutions
- The Fourteenth Amendment's failed promise
- Criminal justice in the gilded age
- A culture war and its aftermath
- Constitutional law's rise, three roads not taken
- Earl Warren's errors
- The rise and fall of crime, the fall and rise of criminal punishment
- The future
- Fixing a broken system
- Epilogue: taming the wolf
- Note on sources and citation form.